I thought I saw something in the documentation or help files of Pd which was using Gem... So I tried
grep -rnw '5.reference/' -e 'gem'
which did not find anything. However, while searching that I found that the html documentation was suggesting to install Pd-extended if one wants Gem, so I made a pull request to remove this reference to Pd-extended.

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/755

On 23.09.19 13:10, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
On 9/22/19 10:08 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
doing this will most likely give you a system that lacks all the
functionality you expect.
Interesting,*you*  say that. 'puredata' recommends 'gem'. I certainly
do not expect to get Gem when installing Pure Data. In all cases I
remember, I was rather annoyed by stuff that got installed
unexpectedly.

actually the fact that the "puredata" package recommends "gem" predates my involvement in the Debian package and i just never came around to demoting it to a mere "suggests" (which is normally not automatically installed).

if it bothers you, please file a bug against the puredata Debian package.

 > So often, though, it appeared to me that 'recommends' somewhat
 > followed the taste of the maintainer and was not concise.

The Debian policy is pretty clear about what qualifies as a "Recommends" [1]. However, i think that historically the term was less well defined and was mostly used as what nowadays would be a "Suggests".

gsadmr
IOhannes




[1] <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends>


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